It seems Cornell has expanded its number of undergraduate students significantly (67%) in the last 20+ years.
Does any one know how / why Cornell achieved this growth?
Where are you getting that information? According to this:
http://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/tableau_visual/admissions
Cornell’s freshman class has gone from 2836 in 1980 to 3219 in 2015. That is a 13% increase.
I saw a chart that showed 1926 freshman in 1994 rising to 3225 in 2014.
It was in an article showing its harder to get into top ranked colleges because the increase in population was higher than the increase in seats at the top 20 schools.
That article doesn’t appear to be correct based on Cornell’s own data.
Cornell takes in a lot of transfer students as well.
According to the Common Data Set, Cornell took in 497 transfer students last year. http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000567.pdf That is at most a 16% increase from the freshman class, and that does not account for the fact that those transfers include both sophomores and juniors, and there are some freshman and sophomores who do not continue at Cornell.
@ClarinetDad16 – there were approximately 3000 in the freshman class when I was there almost 30 years ago.
From Cornell’s own records: 2836 entering freshmen in 1980 and 3219 in 2015. The number bounces around a bit, up 50 one year, down 70 the next, but is fairly steady.
Has the acceptance rate been the same more or less?
20 years ago it was 33.8%
mothersv - you can see detailed info on admissions if you use the link I posted in post #1. Very interesting.
Thanks .
Yes very interesting.